Meet the Ho Ho Ho's in December

Yet another year has gone by for the Trubmeisters.  We got to celebrate
it at the home of Ken and Kim.  Thank You to both for all the work you
did to prepare a place for us to drink and eat Merry.  Or is that eat, 
drink, and be Merry.  I think Merry prefers the first one.

The food was over flowing.  There were chicken wings and little crusty 
mini pies with seafood or mushrooms in them.  The seafood reminded me 
of Merry, it tasted and smelled GREAT.  I saw cucumbers on crackers, 
crackers with cheesy spread, veggies with 2 kinds of dip (one was 
nicely hot and spicy), a few dessert items, and a few other things that 
I am forgetting.  The best thing to eat was still Merry!

Beverages were in full flowing form as they should be.  There were 2 
kegs.  One was a spiced ale that was oh so yummy.  The other was 
something dark and rich.  In bottles were so many things I don't know 
where to begin.  There were at least 3 wines, including one from our 
newest member, Derek.  He had a Chilean Merlot he went to Chile to make 
and brought it back.  I loved it!  There were a couple other barely 
labeled bottles too.  None were bad wines.  A commercial Port and a 
young (2000) Burgundy? (very dark red and French) were also available.  
Steve, you missed out on the Port!  Ken/Kim had a Ginger Beer that as 
so smooth, sweet, and ginger flavored you wouldn't know it wasn't a 
soda pop.  That one was best of show in my opinion.  I'm sure others 
would disagree.  There were a couple of growlers and some various other 
bottles laying around.  They included a barley wine that tasted OK, but 
was a bit on the over active side.  Had to open it over the sink.  The 
last thing that stood out in my memory was the hippocras from Jim and 
Sue.  Weird stuff, but very holiday like.

The usual suspects were in attendance minus a few who should have been 
there but refused to make it.  Steve made a surprise appearance from 
his death bed.  Wish him a slow and painful recovery.  Check the 
photo's to see what Steve looks like now.  Who was that George had with 
him?  It didn't look like Janet.  Her aS$ wasn't as nice looking.  I 
heard she was Merry.  We had 3 guests.  Someone from a hotel called the 
ymca who had stolen John's shirt showed up.  The principal, Ben, came 
by and sent us all to stand in the corner after making us write "I will 
drink beer" on the chalk board 100 times each.  We may have another new 
member.  His name is Matt, and I think he said he brews.  If he didn't, 
he's going to brew soon.  There should be photo's of all of them.  I 
may have missed Derek by himself, but he's got to be in some of the 
other photos.

Debbie was so drunk, she started to caress the Kangaroo Nuts.  If 
you've never had Kangaroo Nuts, you should try them some time.  We did 
get one picture of her as she was licking the Nuts.

There was a brass pole in the middle of the room, but none of the women 
would agree to strip for us.  However, we were visited by Santa.  Kim 
begged him to strip so he did.  About half way through the women all 
started throwing dollar bills.  They were not throwing them and yelling 
"take it off", they were saying "Stop! Please! Here's all the dollars I 
have. Just STOP!"  Santa brought Joy and Merry for all.  Merry was much 
better than Joy.

Later in the evening, the warmed, spiced mead must have caught up with 
Kim.  She passed out.  Since she has no idea what all we did to her, 
and she reads this letter, I can't say what really happened after that.  
I can only say that a half hour later Ken asked George not to stroke 
his wife's port again.

Next month is being set up for Silver Spring House or some place like 
that.  Watch your email for details.  We still need open houses for 
winter months.  Feb, Mar, Apr, and Nov are still open.  We could do 
Lake Front Fish Fry the First Friday in April like we used to?  Other 
suggestions?

A Good Beer To All, And To All A Good Beer! 

Jeff Kane